On the basis of this website (and out of the blue), I have been asked to create and teach a class this summer at the International Center of Photography. The class, Creativity 2.0, will be August 4 & 5, 11 & 12, and by then I’ll still be wildly unqualified to teach it.
“Look,” I’ll tell my students, “You can take a picture of whatever you want, but you should always be ready for a three-legged dog to pass into the frame. That’s called happenstance, and it really can’t be taught.
“But,” I’ll continue, “You should also wait around, however long it takes, and even if it’s pretty frikking cold outside, to get the three-legged dog coming back in the other direction. That’s called journalism.”